Alistair Smith

College of Natural Resources
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
Associate Professor Program Lead, Fire Ecology and Management Director, Idaho Fire Initiative for Research and Education (IFIRE)

Campus Locations: Moscow
With UI Since 2003

2000-2004 Ph.D. Remote Sensing, University of London

1999-2000 M.Sc. Imaging and Digital Image Processing, University of London

1995-1999 B.Sc. Physics, University of Edinburgh

Research/Focus Areas

Remote sensing

Forestry

Fire science

Smoke and air quality

Biography

Dr Smith is a physicist that conducts applied research in multiple natural resource fields including the study of vegetation from satellites and the study of what controls combustion, fire spread, and smoke emissions in wildland fires. Dr Smith did his BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh, with both his MSc in Physics and PhD in Geography from the University of London. Dr Smith joined the University of Idaho community in 2003.

Quantifying the characteristics and investigating the biogeoscientific and societal impacts of extreme wildland fires in the United States northern Rockies region, NASA ROSES Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science,(July 1 2011-Aug 1 2015), Principal Investigator

Inter-agency training workshops for personnel who need to work with the public and other agencies to develop smoke management/air quality approaches. Sponsored by the US National Park Service.

Supervised coordinator (Joshua Hyde), who under direction has: Developed online tutorials and training modules for NPS and other agency personnel on smoke management and air quality. Developed online glossary of smoke management and air quality terminology called “Smokepedia”: http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/wildlandfire/fact.htm